Today’s film is a period drama with a scene that happens on
May 2. I hope you will enjoy this movie and watch it tonight.
THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII: PART 2 – ANNE BOLEYN
After the birth of the Princess Elizabeth, Henry VIII and
Anne Boleyn are happy for a while. However, Anne soon begins to suspect Henry
is involved with other women. Anne
becomes pregnant again, she hopes with a son. Lady Rochford, the wife of Anne’s
brother George, out of spite, plots with Thomas Cromwell, the Chancellor to bring Anne down. Cromwell speaks to Henry
about Anne, saying that the people blame the King for the deaths of Catherine
of Aragon and Thomas More, which they think were caused by Henry’s involvement with Anne. Anne gives
birth to a stillborn son, sealing her fate, as Henry blames her for this. He
begins to listen to those who accuse Anne of infidelity. Cromwell starts
pressing various men under torture to admit they had sexual relations with
Anne. Anne is arrested and taken to the
Tower of London on May 2, 1536. [38:56 to 41:13] Anne’s alleged lovers are
convicted of treason. With her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk presiding, Anne is
put on trial for treason and convicted. Henry has already selected Jane Seymour
as wife number three. Cromwell and the King want Archbishop Thomas Cranmer to
get Anne to agree to a divorce, but she refuses. Anne’s accused lovers are
executed. Cranmer hears Anne’s last confession in which she steadfastly denies
her guilt. Anne is executed by being beheaded.
A tragic story of injustice. Anne dies because of
something outside her control, the inability to have a son. A classic case of a
political show trial because as Anne says the verdict was determined before her
trial ever started.
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by
Alison Weir (Ballantine Books, New York, 2010) at pages 136-144 gives the date
she was arrested
Director - Naomi Capon
Producer - Mark Shivas and Ronald
Travers
Awards - . The film won the
Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor in a leading Role (Keith Michell) Emmy award. It was also nominated for the
Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding
New Series, Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actor in a leading role in
a dramatic series (Keith Michell) and the Outstanding Single Program, drama or comedy
at the 24th Primetime Emmy Awards.
Screenplay - Nick McCarty
Runtime - 1 hour 30 minutes
Released - January 8, 1970
Starring –
Keith Michell as Henry VIII of
England
Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn
Patrick Troughton as the Duke of
Norfolk
Bernard Hepton as Archbishop
Thomas Cranmer
Sheila Burrel as Lady Rochford
Michael Osborne as Mark Smeaton
Jonathan Newth as George Boleyn
Wolfe Morris as Thomas Cromwell
Copyright by Ivan Walters 2014.
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